I haven't found much standardbred stuff, but in the west, thats understandable. Did find a lot of 6 tobacco tin wrappers that were like new once. Gave $6 for them, donated one to the Alberta standardbred assn. to auction off for chrarity and it brought $85.00.

Couple of months ago found a large book titled "The Thoroughbred 1900-1925" . Lot of pictures, and descriptions of their family line and conformation of the (then) current offspring. That was at an estate sale for $5.

One old harness token I did find was a gold coin in a plastic wrapper. Found that in Monterey in a shop. It is a commemorative coin for the inaugural harness meet at Pomona, Fairplex park and dated 1986. Paid $2 for that.

I just scored a talio crome print of Palenske's etching of Greyhound for $25. A regular lithograph print of the piece sold at auction for $1000 and I see some gallery auctions getting $400-$600 for the plain prints.

Found a large ceramic bowl (no maker marks) advertising the '64' Jug done in 24k gold trim with past winners ect...on eBay for, as I recall, $34.00. My guess is it was a giftshop article at one time. Sadly, wife accidently broke it, and I have yet to find anything like it.

Many, many libraries of harness racing materials that people have spent lifetimes accumulating, simply end up in the trash (it's happen so many times and will happen so many more times), because that's how most family members view the items.

Saw some trophy bowls recently (don't recall if it was Riegle or Haughton) go for dirt cheap on ebay.

eBay is a buyers market and the sale of many harness racing items don't recover a reasonable amount, as compared to the time spent to prepare the add (solid description necessary), shoot the photo's, and ship the item when sold.

The following from July 1965:CHICAGO DOWNSat Sportman's ParkFive-Eighths Mile TrackCicero, Ill.

SIR PAINTER WINS $10,000 3-YEAR-OLD INVITATIONAL

Sir Painter, 2 to 1 favorite, took the featured $10,000 Invitational Pace for 3-year-olds at Sportsman's Park with a brilliant stretch drive in the excellent clocking of 2:001/5. A crowd of 14,969 watched a thrilling race from start to finish as first Roswell, then Nelson Guy, then Carbon Copy and then Roswell again changed in the role of pacemaker.

Cleverly rated by Dwayne Pletcher, Sir Painter raced in fourth position to the head of stretch to wear down the leaders relentlessly. Roswell battled it out gamely to the wire but succumbed by a neck. Tarport Prince was 2-1/2 lengths back third in the field of six. Bullet Van was a late scratch. For Sir Painter it was the third straight victory and the third time in a row that he lowered his best mark for the mile.